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If you think you have the flu, it's a cold. If you think you're dying, it's the flu.

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Yeah, those were two big sticking points.

There's also Object.groupBy() now which was another thing I always missed from the standard library.

Proposals tend to get adopted at a snail's place but it's neat to see what's coming down the pike: https://github.com/tc39/proposals

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The sensory medium is separate from one's capacity to learn and use language. Sign languages have grammar, vocabulary, "accents" etc just like spoken languages.

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I went through a similar thing where I had some trouble sleeping due to external stressors and then started to get freaked out that I was having trouble sleeping, having always been a great sleeper. I developed a lot of anxiety around it and it was pretty awful, though I'm mostly over it now. To me, the key was accepting that I might sleep poorly and being okay with that. That true acceptance allowed me to relax. (The larger context for me fwiw is trying to overcome my perfectionism.)

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Keep in mind that just because you're good at management doesn't mean you have to do it professionally. Stay purely technical if that's what you enjoy!

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As a perfectionist in recovery, this book was extremely illuminating: https://www.newharbinger.com/9781684038459/the-anxious-perfe...

I often felt like they were describing me to myself as I was reading... Highly recommend if you deal with perpetual dissatisfaction with your performance or achievements and would like to learn how to accept yourself for who you are and live a "lighter" existence.

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Bugs are inevitable but we should strive to have as few as possible. Your program not working right is obviously bad UX (as we've all experienced using buggy software).

The reason we have type checking is same reason we have other tooling in our editors to do static analysis like highlighting syntax errors and linting: catching bugs during development is better than finding them in production.

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Yeah, the proximate cause is eating too much but the ultimate cause has to be systemic if we're getting more and more obese all the time.

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I think it depends on population density as well. I grew up in a rural area in the US and now live in Philadelphia on a tiny side street barely two cars wide. Every single car on our street has scratches/small dents on the bumper and fender from others parallel parking. If you live here you have to accept that "bumpers are for bumping"!

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Yeah, there's definitely a separate cultural/inexperience problem at play as well.

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I agree and am very pro vanilla JS FWIW. I just find myself reaching for something like lodash's `intersection`/`difference` functions when working with sets, `sortBy` to get more normal (and not in-place) sorting behavior, and `groupBy` to do group by.

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I hear what you're saying, but it still seems pretty bonkers to me that if you try to sort an array of numbers it will cast them to strings and sort alphabetically (!):

  > [1, 2, 10, 3].sort()
  [ 1, 10, 2, 3 ]

> And yes, I agree that throwing an error here for no argument would be better here (a linter WILL enforce this), but this is hardly a critical shortcoming of JS's standard library

I suppose "critical" is debatable but this seems very fundamental and very unexpected to me.

> you DEFINITELY do not need a utility library just to use the language (especially for your examples)

I hadn't actually considered using a linter to avoid these types of standard library footguns... that's actually a pretty great idea!

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Part of it is that JS's standard library is terrible (eg. no built-in union/intersection when working with sets, bizarre default sorting behavior see (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...), groupBy (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...) is new and not well-supported, etc). You almost have to reach for some utility library or build your own ad-hoc one just to use the language.

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I had the same issue with the Reddit app so now I just use the neutered web app and consider the frustration stemming from its brokenness to be feature that keeps me from spending too much time on it.

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> they didn't shadow protect their password files

Could you please explain what this means? Googling didn't reveal much.

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I just changed jobs. For me it was my job pool increasing by 10x or 20x due to the normalization of remote work. It's also much easier to interview when you're WFH all the time.

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What you're saying makes sense, but sentiment like this makes me long for a post-capitalist conception of work where everything's not purely transactional and we can do meaningful work that we feel proud of. I think artisans or craftspeople had that historically and it's something we require to feel fulfilled.

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Can you provide a source for running being 5x better than walking? It doesn't seem that simple to me (eg. older people may suffer from joint pain or a risk of falling from more intense activity, so frequent walking may be better for them).

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I'm not a seasoned Haskell dev by any means, having only played around with it for parsing and then more recently for Advent of Code, but tooling has come a long way in the past 6 months. I was able to use ghcup to very easily install and manage versions of GHC, cabal, and HLS (Haskell Language Server), the LSP server that the community has thrown all of its energy into. All I had to do then was configure the LSP client for my editor and everything just worked. I had function signatures/docs on hover, go to definition, and symbol renaming working in about a half hour.

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I just talked to a recruiter today from a company I'm beginning the hiring process with. When they asked about compensation I asked about their range for the position, which ended up being about $15k higher than what I would have asked for. Now I'm looking at a 50% raise if they end up making me an offer :D

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